Sympathy Quotes

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

Death is the most blessed dream.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.

You don't love someone out of loyalty... nor out of sympathy, either.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery" Jaypaw mewed

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.